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migration from notes to exchange

We're looking to migrate from Domino to Exchange. The problem is that we have a few databases in Notes that people are so bent on using. Any ideas how to start converting those databases?

Thanks!
Scott

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Sjef Bosman

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Steve Knight

Useful link noted.... have had to have this argument many a time, they nearly always end up keeping both running or going back to Notes in the end :-)

Steve

marilyng

Agreed, the biggest problem with database conversion is what to do with the rich text fields.. and is the biggest problem when you deal with data conversion. Usually Access or the smaller, cheaper RDBMS can't handle the rich text field size, or text field size, so you end up exporting the rich text to a document, xml, PDF, Word, etc. Then file attachments are a joy, too.

Notes does a lot of stuff that other database engines cannot do easily, or can only do with workaround.

scottman29

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yeah, we are pretty entrenched with lotus here, and I don't really want to switch to Exchange. That link really supports not doing that so thanks!

Sjef Bosman

I read another sory somewhere but I lost the link. It's about the noise made around the two products. They said that you need 10 times more people to maintain an Exchange site than a Notes site of equal size, hence there are 10 times more people talking about Exchange.

Can someone get me that link?? Was it Ed Brill's??